Our dogs made friends with an armadillo! Three nights in a row, playing with it.
Considering going to dogapalooza.
I don't want to talk about politics, and I won't, and I don't. But dear God with the pagers and now the walkie talkies. WTF? I am looking at my cell phone in a whole other way right now. Like... it's sitting on the counter in the other room.
Who knew we would be here.... mini bombs for all. I still don't understand it as I have not read it all just yet but WTF?
@elsa We are seeing things never seen before. I looked over at my phone, thought I may need to buy a box for the thing. Some sort of bomb proof box. Maybe we should have kept landlines. 😳
@allie120 What in the hell is happening? God. Can we have one day of rest from it? I am starting to think something has just been unleashed on the whole damn world.
@soup Yes. We always hear how it’s gonna get worse and that’s totally believable at this point but we just don’t know what or can’t conceive the magnitude.
Honestly, maybe not that topic in particular (the pagers and phones) but there is something very off, like a sickness. Like a gangrene soul.
I want to say it’s a mix of things like really awful nutrition, pharma, social media, being subconsciously herded, maybe even something destructive in the airwaves…what was that Havana Syndrome, like that. I don’t care how it sounds but it’s seems like MK Ultra level stuff and there’s no reason not to think it ever stopped.
@allie120 I had one of those mornings where you realize that in no way do you think the way sinister people think. I don't have one iota of an idea in my head to think of the things I am seeing (which btw are things we have never seen) When the news about the pagers came yesterday, I was scratching my head... it took a minute of reading then I got preoccupied with fam.
This morning? Now it's also walkie talkies (two-way radios) and what is next? I mean what in hell? I am stunned and shocked because I don't have whatever chip is required to come up with even a sort of an idea to think in that direction. This video comes across the screen and a dude is shopping for produce and in one second, he is on the floor down for the count.
We are not headed in a good direction and in fact I don't feel like we will ever get back to any sort of normal, or what I perceive as normal. I am so sad for my grandkids. WTF kind of mess will they be in?
@soup I’ve heard of threats of drones being used for destruction. Like, what if there was a flock of them sent somewhere. That’s like these devices that just blew up.
I remember before 9/11 when the thought of people flying into buildings was crazy because who would do that? Now, I can’t believe we ever thought that.
Even peripherally, this is psychological collateral damage, and of course very physical and deadly damage. It’s evil no matter who does it. That’s just my opinion.
@allie120 Agree. With every word. There is more. Elsa just posted below. This is on another level. I mean, think about what is happening here. This is the kind of warfare I did not see coming.
23andMe’s board just resigned en masse!
@elsa Wow... will go read. I wonder... will everyone's DNA now be floating all over the land like my medical records and social security number?
There is not and never will be any privacy again. Ever. That is what I think. I also think what privacy we thought we had ... was in our imagination.
@elsa My intuitive reaction to the big picture. From the beginning I thought "they are looking for something". When they leave..."they found what they were looking for."
I have used 23 and me for our families medical epigenetics, so it was useful to me this way.
But like y'all, I'm not a psychopath, and I KNOW I dont think like them sickos.
@elsa finding out that 23andMe has NEVER turned a profit, so they started slinging Ozempic and Wegovy through Lemonaid Health to stay afloat and now they're just sitting with millions of people's DNA? Wild. you have to feel like there's more to it.
a tweet..... 😳
@soup I think it's dark and always has been.
I'm trying to figure this out, personally, because I always seem to know, immediately. I can just feel it.
There are a number of strange things about me, I don't mention. Like zero porn. I have spent less than five minutes in my life, on porn. Als9 birth control pills. I took them, like most everyone, but not for long. I couldn't stand what the did to me. Hijacked me.
I have notorious sensitivity to drugs. Is this because I grew up with zero junk food?
And then the tv. I know for sure, the lack of it, allowed me to flourish in my development, rather than watch others flourish on screen. I'm supposed to copy them? And discard my actual self?
I'm sorry if this seems rude. I'm trying to say I see these things and sense them. It's very clear, and it's not because I am psychic or special. I just grew up this way.
I recall the first time I found myself in a bed with someone clearly reenacting porn? I am saying people don't even screw organically. They imitate what they've seen. Pretend soul. Staged passion.
I hope you think about this as it's real.
"I don't want a smart phone..."
I could immediately see people staring into them... holding them as if they were an asset, or something that enhanced them. It's not me.
I just don't see what others see. I see something else. Other things.
We all know this stuff is nefarious. But people fall for one trick after another. I wonder about this. I have theories but they are hard to develop, because I am so roundly rejected. There csn be no conersation. I have no choice but to say, fine! It is you life, the other person's life or whatever. And no one is required to examine their life. But I am losing my ability to connect, simply because I feel dishonest and I don't like that. I'm not good with it.
I personally want to get to where I need very little money... just detach and live in peace, like, Henry, did. He never wanted to bother anyone, and either do I. He drank his carrot juice, and if people wanted to visit, they could.
I am convinced, I'm nothing but a bother to most everyone because I just can't stand by watching then add 2 and 3 and get 7. I'm supposed to nod agreement, but I just can't, because I'm pretty sure it makes me complicit.
I don't want to be complicit in these dark arts. I also don't want to train myself to deny or override what my senses tell me, so can get along.
I just don't want to become yet another face person, person with a bullshit facade they put forth.
You can easily see, how I fit with the exercise ladies. Just keep showing up and being real... real stories, like about, Lester Flatt's hat in the church pew. Something that actually happened. Imagine that!
@soup see, this is not what it seems. Do you notice, the actual injured party, gets nothing?
@soup I understand. I was making a different point.
Twenty some years ago, a friend of mine was sued by the government on behalf of ten mothers who had made complaints against his website interacting with their children, without their consent; also ignoring their complaints.
He was sued for three million, settled of 1.6 millions, was his entire profit from the site.
The gov got 100% of the money. The injured people got nothing. It's a game.
@elsa I too grew up isolated, growing my own mind the best I could. By eight years old, I could tell how many TV channels a person got by their behavior and language. Their program. So I started rebelling to that as soon as I saw it !! Still am.
I think our brains developed similarly. Gifted in some ways. But I'm haunted still from the damage from CPTSD.
One BIG MK ultra!
@nona You do think differently. It's apparent! I'm sorry you suffer lingering effects. 🙁
@elsa I read upur stuff and your perspective and I’m probably absorbing some energy from you. I don’t mean that to sound weird or bad! It’s like I read your stuff and hold it up against what I do and think and it makes me think.
I can sit with people in my circle and we have had similar upbringings, although I am like a little sister to them. And I appreciate them and don’t mean anything good/bad about it. But you know when you meet someone with a completely different background and you feel like you do when uou look in a mirror that’s offset or double or something. It makes my reflection of myself as if I’m a little outside myself.
@allie120 I understand and I know. Not personal to you, but in general, I know this about myself. I've learned a lot exposing myself like this for near 25 years.
I see this quality all over my chart. I know there is an osmosis thing and various other things that provoke and disrupt. Like, Ben, told me thirty years ago. I think it is Jupiter Uranus as well. Unusual perspective opens minds.
Bottom line, I am not creeped out.
"All types of electric devices owned by Hezbollah operatives are now blowing up in Lebanon and the region. Apart from pagers and walkie-talkies, other devices such as fingerprint devices, solar power systems and radios are now exploding too..."
@soup I think it’s a type of warfare. Instead of launching bombs it’s maybe supposed to look like it’s targeting the supposed purpetrators but how can one think there wouldn’t be innocent people around?
But as Elsa said (paraphrasing), it can disrupt businesses and gatherings. So th ose areas where those people live, gather, work, could potentially be hurt, maybe even to the point (or purpose) of driving them out. There is much activity happening in the northern area with the purpose of moving people there to live.
I’m just relaying wht I have seen and I am trying to be balanced because I really don’t want anyone to be hurt, although it’s happening on both sides. 🙁
Anyone with younger kids or grandkids here know if they teach print writing/penmanship/ writing letters or sentences on lined paper (I’m not talking about cursive here)?
I remember being in first grade, second, etc, learning letters, writing and or copying sentences on that lined paper with the centered dashed line so you would have a guide when writing upper and lower case letters.
My oldest granddaughter seems to have much difficulty physically writing and getting her thoughts down on the paper. She seems not to be able to follow the lines on lined paper.
Now I will add this: on a blank paper, she’s been known to just write on it as if the only limitation is the physical paper. She has written across, around the edges, etc. She loves to write stories and illustrate them. And as someone who gravitates towards that kind of creativity, I absolutely love this feature.
However, time and place. She is nine and in fourth grade. They are now seeing it as an issue and it is. I don’t broach the subject because she’s not my child and I know her parents are working with someone (neurodivergent was brought up) but I don’t really remember her doing that penmanship stuff or writing on lined paper as an exercise much. And I get kids are all different and learn differently. But I’m wondering if school had gotten away from that. She does tablet work. And some of the math exercises were based on what you see on games on phones (capture “coins” to get a prize in the game).
I don’t know. Just wondering. She is also a Gemini with Gemini Mercury Rx. I was just wondering though, if you don’t give kids’ tools and lessons on things, you might not be able to accurately assess whether they “can’t” do it or they just have not had the foundation.
@allie120 they don't teach it. Then expect them to do it or enter diagnosis 🧐 we made the girls learn at home on lined paper AND cursive too. I made sure of it. If you want this...you'll learn this...or we're not going swimming, trampoline jumping, waterside park adventuring. They learned all of it in about 6 weeks that summer 😊
My husband said the other day he's waiting for the day he pulls out an ink pen and some young person asks him....what is that? 🤣
@soup Thank you for your insight. I remember being frustrated when I was learning but that was very normal. But we were expected to do the assignment. I remember I was writing a sentence, this was in first grade I think. I think I has to write a lower case “d” or “b”. I made the circle and then the line but I made the line too far so I just made the line really thick, over and over, until it touched the circle. 🤣
But you do it again and again and again and you eventually get it.
So, I can only be open-minded at this point but also there seems to be a lot of money, outside educational companies and interests that wish to create situations and issues where there may not be any. There’s a lot of money to be made in this sector of education.
🤷🏻♀️ But IDK
Our elementary school stopped old school handwriting instruction where letter formation is standardized, ie you start on the bottom, go up to the middle line, make a loop, etc. What happened was in a few years it was taking kids an incredible amount of time to write their answers because they all developed an idiosyncratic way of doing it--which was more than likely inefficient. They had to go back to the standardized way but their were a bunch of kids that missed it and for whom writing is probably excruciating.
@jana Wow. Thank you for this. This really irks me…
In addition, she missed most of kindergarten because that was 2020. She did a lot of worksheet stuff that involved pasting the answers and she was so bored and hated it. IDK if that contributed to it but I don’t think it helped. I remember coloring a lot in kindergarten, which is a good foundation for future penmanship but kids do even more nowadays in kindergarten.
Yes, I was forced to teach online kindergarten and Grade 1 during Covid when they closed down my Library. We had a curriculum called Fundations that taught standard letter formation and they would hold up their letter workbook 
So yes she missed out.
@allie120 I've been thinking about this a lot, I have Mercury in Gemini (not Rx but still) and words and writing are very important. What if she wants to journal and be self reflective when older, writing really helps with self discovery at all ages.
I'm wondering if she needs a motive to write on lines and doesn't have one due to the changes in technology. Perhaps you could introduce her to letter writing by making it fun through the use of stationary. Also perhaps find her a pen pal, even if within the family at first. I used to pen pal with my cousin. We would buy colourful envelopes and paper and cover the envelopes with stickers and messages for the postman, which they would often answer in writing! You can still buy colourful or decorative stationary, pads, envelopes, stamps, and also airmail paper, etc if the pen pal is overseas.
@sophiab She did make her own little cards for everyone all the time 😄 (not lined paper). We’d be over visiting and she would hand us a card she made or she would run to the playroom and whip up one! Very cute!
I remember her wanting to write a story and she did well when I would dash out the letters so she could trace them. That was a few years ago.
I think you’re right about penpals. I could write her a letter! I could see if she would like to write my mom a letter. They’ve never met. I could tell her my mom would love a letter. Everybody likes good mail 😃
Thank you for the suggestion!
@allie120 I'm glad it's a good idea. Could be fun Sounds like she already naturally likes giving and sharing messages, which is very Gemini.